The Moroccan judicial and legal system was at the center of a meeting, Thursday in Rabat, between the Minister of Justice, Abdellatif Ouahbi, and an American delegation made up of experts, legal practitioners and academicians.
During this meeting, the members of the delegation followed a presentation by the director of civil affairs and legal and judicial professions at the ministry Rachid Ouadifi, in which he highlighted the legal developments made in Morocco, as well as the judicial organization of the Kingdom and the legal framework for arbitration and mediation.
In a statement to the press, the Director of Continuing Legal Education at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Daniel J. McCarroll, underlined the importance of this meeting which allows American lawyers to learn about the experience Moroccan, particularly in the field of business law.
Mr. McCarroll also welcomed the “pioneering” reforms undertaken by the Kingdom in the legal and judicial system, indicating that practitioners and researchers in the United States pay particular interest to the Moroccan experience in this area.
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For his part, Mr. Ouahbi welcomed the distinguished relations linking Morocco to the United States, reviewing the major developments in Moroccan legislation, as well as the reform projects, initiated under the enlightened leadership of His Majesty the King Mohammed VI.
-As part of its visit to Morocco, the American delegation visited the Rabat Court of Appeal, in order to learn about the functioning and organization of the Court, as well as the specificities of the judicial system. Moroccan and its practices in different areas.
This visit is part of an academic training program entitled “ Business law in Morocco, Spain and Europe“, organized by the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Law, the State Bar of West Virginia, and the University of Missouri at St. Louis, with the goal of broadening the horizons of scientific and professional exchanges between Morocco and the United States, to strengthen the legal and judicial skills of practitioners from both countries, and to contribute to the development of legal systems and the consolidation of the rule of law.
This 18-day continuing education program is distributed between Morocco and Spain. It includes visits to the cities of Marrakech, Rabat and Tangier, in order to discover models in the field of business law through meetings, conferences and presentations on several aspects relating to this discipline.
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